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The number of grown-ups who are living at home is continually increasing in different countries in the world.
This article talks about the underlying reasons regarding the issue. Some advantages and disadvantages are also discussed by different individuals from different countries.
Discussion Questions:
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of still living in your parents’ house when you are already an adult yourself?
- Personally, what is your opinion about this?
- Do people in your country share the same issue (grown-up and living at home) with people from other parts of the world? Why do you think this is the case?
- What do you think parents and children should do to address this issue?
- What age do you think someone should move out of their parents’ home? And why?
22 replies on “Grown-Up and Living at Home”
Residing with your parents allows you saving money for buying a house, instead of flat sharing where you must pay for food, rent or utilities.
However you can’t have privacy neither freedom, and living together with your parents when you’re an adult maybe were difficult, because them see you like a child.
From my point of view, living together is very useful when you start at your first work and you don’t have saved money. Stay a few years in your parents house let you saving money faster, in case that you don’t give money to your parents of course.
But I know people than they live with their parents because is more comfortable than have your own house and the responsabilities due to.
In Spain the life is more expensive than many years ago. My mother always explain me that when she was young the price of their first apartment was the same than a normal car price in nowadays.
But salarys didn’t grown up in the same proportion than the life cost. Also there are a growing movement to invest in buying flats to rent them later and in my opinion it is the main cause than the rents was increased.
In the other hand, I think too than nowadays the younger people don’t have a mindset to saving money for buying a house, they prefer “living te life”, such as: travelling across the world, eat out every day or go out party..
I don’t think that exist a magic solution for it, but maybe, the parents need to instill values to saving money for future, as buying a house.
For the goverment hand, will be interesting offer more public housing, from this way maybe the rents of private houses decreasing.
The perfect time, it’s when you was 2 or 3 years working, because it lets you saving enough money to buy your first flat .
You can start with a small flat, with one or two beedroms, not is necesary it is in the middle of a city, you can start from a village for example.
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I think the main advantage of still living in your parent`s house is that you can save money. If you are flatsharing, studying or working in your first job and you have to pay a rent, food, bills…It will be difficult to “break the circle”, save money and that you can get your own house.
The main disadvantage for me is that you loose privacy and freedom.
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I think it is all about economic conditions or if you need to live in other city or country, and of course the family circumstances. I prefered stay at home and save money. I left my home at 28.
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Yes, absolutely and I think the issue is getting worse. Buy or renting a house is too expensive and work conditions aren´t stables.
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I think that if you have to stay at home you will have to respect your parents rules but, at the same time, parents have to understand that you are an adult now and you need privacy and freedom. I think politicians have to develop strategies and forbid abusive high rents or foreign investment as in other countries like Denmark.
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I think it is not about the age but the circumstances: when a person starts to work, if the person have to go to other city or country to study or work there…
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I think that you have few advantages when you are an adult and you are still living with your parents. You don’t have privaticy, you start having problems with them because of you are already an adult and you have your routines and it can conflict with their.
So, if you think that not washing or preparing dinner is a benefit to live with your parents, maybe you are not an adult yet.
I think you should leave home when you are ready, finacially stable and settled. As long as your parent agree, i don’t think it’s a bad idea to stay home.
Yes, this issue is very common in my country and people have a lot of problems to leave hoe because of the house price
I think parents and children have to talk about this and reach and agreement to solve when they can leave home but ensuring their future.
I don’t think that exist an age to move out of theis parent’s home, you just have to be ready and have stability. But If I could decide everything went well, I think 25 years old would be a good age.
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1. Is living at home a good or bad point in your own perspective?
From my point of view can be good if you don’t have a job and you don’t earn money. However, in the other side, living at home can make bad relationships with parents and it doesn’t help you to learn to be independent.
2. Do people in your place share the same issue (grown-up and living at home) with people from other parts of the world?
Yes, in fact my country, Spain, is de coutry with the lowest rate of emancipation of Europe. There are, mainly, three reasons for that. Firstly, it is very expensive both, renting or buying of home. Secondly, low wages and unemployed into de young people don’t allow the autonomy and third the housing offer is low.
3. What do you think parents and children should do to address this issue?
I think that both, parents and children, they can’t do much. In my opinion this issue must be solved by state administrations.
For me is a bad point because indicates bad economy country or bad preparatios of young people. People wants to get an accommodation in its life.
In Spain and in majority of first world doesn’t happend, however I from latam and that is so common.
The best way is to inspire to their kids to get a good carrer or a job well paid and demanded.
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1. Is living at home a good or bad point in your own perspective?
If you are single and you are studying or you need more time for your personal projects and you are single, is good point for a short period of time, sometimes, everyone need help. But I think you can´t grow up while you depend on your parents. You need know how earn money and how spend money.
If you are married, you need privacy of home winth your couple. You need organize the other way for get more time. In that case, it isn´t a good idea live at home with your parents.
2. Do people in your place share the same issue (grown-up and living at home) with people from other parts of the world?
Here, in Spain, it is frequently look people living with their parents. The price of house, to buy or to rent, are very expensive, and depend on the salaries it´s very difficult be able to access this. According to statistics, about 55,0% of young people between 25 and 29 years old, lived with their parents or with one of them, in the year 2020 .
3. What do you think parents and children should do to address this issue?
I really believe that financial education from a very early age is a good starting point.
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1. Is living at home a good or bad point in your own perspective?
It depends on the situation of each person. I think that all people should be able to decide if it is good o bad living at home,alone or with your parents and family.
2. Do people in your place share the same issue (grown-up and living at home) with people from other parts of the world?
Yes, it is the same problem in my country. Each generation takes longer to become independent
3. What do you think parents and children should do to address this issue?
Honestly, I don’t have idea.
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In my opinion, living at home with your parents when you are an adult is not a good thing. It´s a great experience when you live in your own place, it gives you responsabilities, privacy and freedom. If you can not afford the cost of renting or buying an accomodation, maybe you don´t have a choice, but this is not a good sintom. Something is wrong with our system if young people can´t find a job.
And also is not good when accomadation is so expensive that people can´t buy or rent their own houses. Maybe owners shouldn´t abuse that much, and also, how many houses are empty?
In my place we share the same issue, but is very common to rent an accomadation with other young people instead of staying at your parents’ home.
Finally, if you have to stay with your parents because you don´t have a choice, then you could do some housework, if your parents let you!!
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1. I think is a bad point if you are living with your parents because you are not able to live on your own. Most of the cases of young people living with their parents are because they can’t afford rent or buy a house, even if they want to.
2. Yes, it is. In Spain, young people usually have problems finding a good job and earning enough money to rent or buy a house.
3. Trying to be comprehensive with his children and supporting them.
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1. I don´t think it has to be just a bad or good point. I think it really depends on the relationship you share with your family. There are young people that don´t have a good environment at home and prefer not to share their space with them. On the opposite, there are other ones that enjoy sharing time and space with their family after work, although they can have a perfectly independent routine by their own.
2. Not really. In USA for example, teenagers move to their parents house at a very young age, when they go to college. Meanwhile in Spain, can be very difficult to find a cheap rental flat to move at that age and they have to stay longer at their family home.
3. Giving their kids more independency and responsabilities towards their own space. you can share their space but everyone has their right to set that kind of boundaries to be able to manage a personal space, whether if is a flat or a room.
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1. Is living at home a good or bad point in your own perspective?.
It has positive and negative points. It allows people to save cash and looking for a good job before going to live alone. As a bad point, people usually have less independence when they live at parents home.
2. Do people in your place share the same issue (grown-up and living at home) with people from other parts of the world?
Yes it does. Young people use to have problems to find their first employment in this part of the world.
3. What do you think parents and children should do to address this issue?.
Be respectful which all of them it’s definitely a main thing for having a good live when people live together (parents with children).
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Young people use to have problems to find their first employment in this part of the world.
I think there are a couple of reasons which explain this phenomenon, firstly is more difficult to leave the parent´s house due to the difficult to buy or rent a house- The reasons are the high prices on the real estate and the decrease of salaries.
On the other hand a high percentage of youg people prefer to live with his parents because they seem and feel themselves like kids, they aren´t hurry to look for his adult life. The parents seem aren´t not interested in thath his kids are getting a life as adults.
In my opinion the result of this situation will be bad for everyone: Grandparents living like if they´re 20 years yonger and kids living like babys.
Summarizing nobody want accept the real age.